The Heroine has Her Eyes on Me as Her Brother’s Wife - Chapter 9

“…Is there something on my face?”

Noelier swept his cheek and asked carefully.

“Oh, no. Excuse me. First of all, come in.”

At my words he bowed politely and came into the house.

The man was so large that once he entered the small house there was no room to move around. So I faced the man with the children on both sides. With his strange red eyes, Zion stared at him with his wary eyes.

“….”

Feeling the children’s stinging stare he opened his mouth after a while.

“… My name is Noelier Ramier. There is much to tell you, but before that, I would like to apologize for what happened in the forest first.”

It was a more polite greeting than I had imagined.

… It’s unexpected? Don’t you know I’m a wolf? I waved my hand carefully to show that I was okay.

It wasn’t that I didn’t understand. It was natural to think that I was a kidnapper because he found a man with his younger sister in the North, an enemy of the South.

Of course, that didn’t mean I didn’t get angry. I almost died. I almost died leaving only a trace.

When I thought about it, the cold air circling my body suddenly disappeared in an instant.

I thought I should get a bigger reward for this job, but it would be okay to get a little less than I had anticipated. The reason was because of his face.

‘A handsome face and unfavorable attitude….’

My nostrils fluttered freely. It was short, but the prominent wolf’s instinct was beating wildly within me.

Then, the man asked again with an anxious face.

“… Is there something wrong with you, too? You don’t look good.”

Oops. I came to my senses quickly.

“I’m fine. In conclusion, I’m alive. I would have done the same thing if I was in your position. Well, by the way, ….”

I slowly blurted the end of my words.

‘You, don’t you have anything to say to me?’

Understanding the meaning, Noelier quickly continued.

“I’ve been rude again and not explaining. I’m sorry. I’m Rachel’s older brother. Rachel left the house as she pleased and disappeared, so I came all the way here to find her.”

“Rachel, would that mean…?”

I shook my head, pretending not to know with a shameless face.

“The child in your arms is my sister, Rachel.”

Noelier said with a glance towards Rachel in my arms. But–

“Who are you?”

“….”

Still, he didn’t seem to know what Rachel was doing here.

Noelier touched his forehead, making a fist and shouting.

“A while ago, why do you still pretend you don’t know ….” He muttered in a voice full of tiredness.

But Rachel shook her head with a look that showed she knew nothing.

“Sister, this brother is weird. From a while ago, he kept looking at me and said he is my older brother.”

Rachel cried and broke into my arms.

“Rachel.”

It seemed that Rachel’s actions were due to shock to an extent. Otherwise, her face wouldn’t have been like that.

Pretending not to know, I pulled Rachel into my arms with a serious face. Like I really am the guardian of this child.

_{^{(T/n: I can’t with this shameless pair xD)}}

“… Really? She’s so scared, how can I believe that?”

“Yes, I’m scared.” Rachel was also in tears and dug into my arms.

He hurriedly added words to my wary eyes.

“I’m not lying.”

Noelier reached for Rachel as if to prove that he was her brother. His smooth, white fingers touched Rachel’s fingertips.

“It is proof that we are brother and sister.”

A small spark broke out from Noelier’s fingertips. Then, as if in response, a spark broke out in Rachel’s hand.

It was then when something happened.

“Aak!”

Rachel cried out with a short scream and collapsed into my arms.

“Fire is coming out of my hand, my hand! Sister, I’m scared. Ooh….”

Oh, no! I hurriedly grabbed Rachel. Rachel lost her memory and seemed to be unaware that the fire was her power.

“Oh, my gosh!” I shouted with a surprised face.

Actually, I wasn’t surprised because it was what I expected, but it would have been weird to pretend to be okay.

“Are you surprised? It’s okay, it’s okay. Now, let’s hold my hand.”

I patted Rachel on her back to calm down and held her hand as I always had. The cold from my body cooled Rachel’s heat.

“Ruby?”

“Oh, Zion.”

At that time, Zion called out to Rachel with a confused face.

I turned my head towards where Zion is.

‘Are you scared, too?’

Zion was pure through and through. It was not surprising that he reacted after seeing the fire, that was only seen in the furnace, coming out of a hand.

It was at that point when I was about to add an explanation to help Zion understand.

“Zion ….”

Rachel reached out her hand toward Zion.

“Give me your hand. I’m so scared.”

Rachel drooped her eyes and spoke with a scared look. Rachel’s face also showed a little desperation. She seemed to be relying a lot on us that much. Zion pointed at himself and asked me like a fool.

“Me, me too?”

Rachel wriggled her eyebrows. Then Zion shuddered.

‘Is it because you’re afraid of fire?’

I said soothingly. “It’s okay, everything’s fine. Hurry up and hold her, Zion. Ruby’s scared.”

“Sister, I’m scared.”

“Yes, you will be fine.”

“Why would I ….”

At my urging, Zion held Rachel’s opposite hand with a puzzled look.

Rachel held me and my brother hands together as if she were dealing with an safety doll.

In this ridiculous situation, Noelier couldn’t keep talking, his beautiful lips were longing to speak.

“What the hell ….”

He had only come to find his sister, and in no time became a fiery monster who had come to destroy the peace of the three.

_{^{(T/n: I can’t stop laughing translating this lol)}}

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Noelier looked at them with a devastated face.

‘I’m sorry about what happened.’

Eventually, I explained what had happened. It was around the time when Rachel, who was lying alone in the forest, and I had just finished saying that I had no choice but to keep her because she couldn’t remember anything.

“What the hell happened to you .…”

Noelier’s red eyes lived for an instant. At first glance, it seemed to me that I heard the word ‘fucking wolf cubs’, but I tried to pass it off  as a hallucination.

I couldn’t show embarrassment. I am ‘a human who came to live here by accident’, not a wolf.

Well, then.

While I was doing such self-hypnosis, Noelier, with a bloody glance, opened his mouth carefully.

“… Do you mind?”

“Hm?”

As soon as he looked around as if he was talking, Noelier shut up.

I grasped the meaning of the silence. He mistook me for a kidnapper and tried to kill me.

Through my red eyes, I was able to read my willingness to show off the fire that lingers on my body. But Noelier couldn’t kill me. The flames surrounding me subsided as soon as I caught his hand. As if nothing had happened.

‘How the hell?’

I recalled Noelier from the original. His life was a little longer than my one-line death. Noelier, like the head of the South, was described as having a mana that no one could match. Born with a single heart, he used his natural magic to control his heat. It was the reason why he, who has a single heart, could live without a companion thus far.

In other words, however, it also meant that control was impossible after the emotion had collapsed.

‘I put out a fire that even the owner barely controll.’

No matter how hard I think about it, it was clear that it was strange.

‘If you look at the odds, is it because of the ice magic I have?’

However all I did through the ice magic was make ice flowers and icicles. That’s why I attacked people with frozen apples. With the magic I had, it was hard to protect my body.

‘Besides, there would have been more capable ice wizards anywhere.’

What is the reason? I was lost in thought, and Noelier also seemed to think the same way, narrowing the gap between his eyes and thinking hard about something. I got confused and fiddled with my wrist.

The feelings of luck were read. I slowly lifted my lips.

“Maybe, it’s because of my ice magic. As you know, there are many wolves with ice ability in the north.”

“Then, you are….”

At a moment, his eyes sunk darkly. I pretended to be fine and arranged my expressions. When embarrassed, ‘I’m a wolf.’ It was no different from talking about it.

“I know what you’re thinking. But I’m a wolf…”

_{^{(T/n: She want to said she’s not a wolf, but Korean have a different way say, so it look like she said she was a wolf)}}

I slowly blurred my words. Now, when you cheat someone with a lie, you have to be careful and maintain a confident attitude to make it work. I remembered the lies I had practiced countless times.

‘I am not a wolf, I am a human. Both my mother and my father were human, and they gave birth to me here. Because of the wolves, my hands were tied*, so I couldn’t easily get out of this forest.’

_{^{(PR/n – when your “hands are tied” it means that you have no freedom to do what you want because something/someone prevents it. This could be a parent or the law)}}

Okay. Just this white lie*.

_{^{(PR/n – white lies are lies that are told to avoid hurting feelings. These lies are small/unimportant but are told to spare someone’s ego. They can also be told for good reasons, like when you tell your friends you’re not planning a party for them when you really are.)}} 

Even if he thought ‘something’s weird,’ he couldn’t point it out since I had been taking care of Rachel. This is the Savior Buff!

When I tried to reveal my falsehood with a sweet lip.

“Oh, Sister …!”

Rachel pulled the hem of my clothes urgently. Thanks to that, the lies that lingered in my mouth stopped.

“Oh, no, I’m so scared of him.”